OT 19/3: A Warning to Future Generations

[Felonious Python]

I am not huge on shooters to begin with and the post apocalyptic genre runs its course on me quickly. My buddies were huge into Resident Evil and Nazi Zombies and after a while it becomes very redundant shooting down waves of mindless killers. After like 6 months I was begging to go back to games like the Zelda franchise -yep. I'm a nerd

I can make an exception for Halo and Gears of War because I am the kind of guy who will play a shooter for a plot. I am liking Fallout 4 enough as a plot to keep engaging in it despite how frustrated I'm getting

The Metro games started as novels (same as The Witcher). It's more like BioShock or Prey (2017).

The Steam Winter sale is going on now, and the deep discounts page has some good ones.

Winter Sale Featured Deep Discounts

Especially great deals on some of the all-time greats

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Firewatch supposedly has a good story, although it's more of a walking sim.

Titanfall 2 is a great game that didn't sell that well. Not as strong as a story, but it has that COD4 era DNA to it. The single player campaign is well worth the time, IMO. The development studio went on to make Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.

 

[JoVel]

You know those annoying ads for games where you shoot wave after wave of enemies charging at you on a bridge and your guns are supposed to get bigger as it goes on? But the person always fails in the ad? And you realize that's not even the actual game?

That's what I'm expecting of their half minute trailer

I'll be honest, Skyrim might be my favorite game of all time, at least top 3. But I don't have much hope for Bethesda at this point. And if Elder Scrolls 6 only releases on Xbox and PC it'll take me years to buy it anyway.

 

[LightningStrikes]

FEAR 4 is announced to release in 2027. Might be a reason to buy a gaming PC for me, loved the series.

 

[Felonious Python]

2025 looks interesting for games. Death Stranding 2, MGS Delta, GTA6, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Outer Worlds 2, etc.

If you like Skyrim/Elder Scrolls, Kingdom Come: Deliverance might be worth looking at.

If you like Fallout, The Outer Worlds has a lot of old-school Fallout DNA from a combination of having a few of the original developers, as well as the larger influence of the series. The Metro 2033 series I mentioned would be another.

Metro feels a bit like a more grounded version of Fallout.